By Kerry Black, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Integrated Knowledge, Engineering and Sustainable Communities, University of Calgary
David Barrett, Research Associate, Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
In the lead-up to the 2024 federal budget, there was hope for investments in water management and water-related infrastructure. Those hopes were misplaced.
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By Alexander Baratta, Senior lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester
Paul Vincent Smith, Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
Rui He, Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
The English language left its borders of origin in Britain long ago. It has been exported throughout the world through colonisation, travel and media.
This process has created not one English, spoken around the globe, but many Englishes. There are native speaker varieties, such as British, American or Australian English, but also multiple versions spoken by non-native speakers, such as Indian, Ghanaian and Singaporean English. In fact, the majority…
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By Megan Shirley, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
Lawyers often tell their clients that “principles cost money”. As actor Hugh Grant’s decision to settle his privacy claim against News Group Newspapers (NGN) shows, sometimes principles just cost too much.
Grant announced he had reluctantly accepted an “enormous sum of money” to settle his claim against the Murdoch-owned NGN, the publisher of…
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By Amy Thomas, Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Glasgow
Respondents to a survey confirmed they would hesitate to encourage anyone to become a freelancer given the limited prospects currently offered in the profession.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly been conducting operations in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip conducting raids on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets. The IDF says it has been working on information gleaned from questioning Palestinian fighters captured in the fighting.
According to a report in the Jerusalem Post on April 17, the Palestinian fighters were hiding out in schools in the area. A warning was issued to civilians to evacuate the buildings before the Israeli military…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A boy sits on a bicycle in front of a plastic recycling facility in Adana, Turkey. © 2021 Human Rights Watch Next week in Ottawa, countries will reconvene to continue negotiations on an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. A revised draft of the treaty published by the United Nations Environment Programme on December 28, 2023, contains certain positive measures to reduce plastic production. However, it lacks the necessary provisions to protect human rights and health from the impacts of plastic pollution, especially for frontline communities…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Taguhi shows scars on her neck and shoulder. In 2016, her former husband attacked her and her mother with an axe, killing her mother. © 2016 Nazik Armenakyan (Daphne.am) Armenia’s parliament adopted amendments strengthening the country’s domestic violence law. The legislation was adopted last week as postwar Armenia both struggles to secure its border with neighboring Azerbaijan and deepen its relations with the European Union. Armenia’s 2017 domestic violence law was an important first step, but its accountability provisions were inadequate and protective measures…
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By The New Arab
The inside story of how Germany deployed hundreds of police and 'cancelled' a Berlin conference with speakers like Ghassan Abu Sitta and Yanis Varoufakis for speaking out for Gaza.
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By Emily Hauser, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter
The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
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By Jessica Louise Macbeth, Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies, University of Central Lancashire
Ben Powis, Senior Lecturer in Sport, Bournemouth University
Running is empowering for many blind and partially sighted people, but they can face a range of societal barriers to get involved.
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